Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27
DAKOTA NEWS ITEMS.

The family OF William Duncan OF
Mount Vernon was away from
home lea1 ing their children IN the
house. the eldest a girl OF eleven.
Her brother. six years old, started to
take q loaded shotgun from the bed
room. and in trying to prevent MN
the girl was killed by the discharge OF
the gun.
The South Dakota board OF phar-
macy met at Parker. Only n can
didate was examined, and ne tailed TO
pass.
President McLoutt, OF the Brook
ings agricultural college, is in WASH.
ington on business connected with
the appropriation for experimental
purposes. Gen. Beadle OF fankton
IS there conducting the institute. sew
entv teachers are in attendance.
John Cramer, living near Pelican,
vas killed by the accidental dis
charge of his gun.
NJ. H. Day seems to have a good
prospect of succeeding Judge Francis,
of the Dakota supreme court. as soon
as the latter gentleman resigns or is
bounced.
At Gary, Fred A. Ballet. a promi-
aent young business man n mem
ber OF the firm of Enos q Ballet,
hardware dealers, died a few days
ago.
The barn, cattle. hay and grain
| stacks OF J. Sexeler were destroyed by
fire at Millette.
Mrs. Browne, mother OF Hon. M. II,
Day died at Huron.
At Faulkton, Edwin Poison, who
entieed away from her home Eva
Deloye for the purpose OF prostitu.
ton, was brought before Justice Ma
son for trial. Poison concluded to
marry the Deloye woman, and Justice
Mason performed the ceremony.
At the district court at Brookings,
the cases OF Harkins for horse steal
ing and Bosler for leaving the country
with mortgaged property and selling
the same, the jury brought in a YER
dict OF guilty.
Gov. Church has pardoned Ester
Olson, who was sent to the Bismarck
p~enitentiary from Grand Forks in
1885 for a five-year term for forgery.
The petition for his pardon was sign
ed by the judge who tried the case, and
all the lawyers and othsr prominent
residents OF Grand Forks. Olson is
an expert carpenter and eabinetmak-
er. Articles of his make while in the
penitentiary have been sent all over
the country. He has a wife and SIX
children.
John Anderson, an employe OF the
Northern Poetic road, aged twenty
FIVE years, committed suicide at the
Farmers hotel in Grafton. He had
recently arrived there from Crookston,
Mimi. The verdict OF the coroner's
Jury was that the deceased came to
his death from a pistol shot wound
inflicted by his own hand. 1t is sur
missed that the deceased took his own
life because of disappointment in a
love affair.
The city council of Yankton has CIV
en- Bishop Martyforty acres of land in
the western part of the city for the
holy see ofSouth Dakota. An elegant
cathedral and bishops residence viii
be erected there. Yankton has been
made the Cathedral city for the d.
Geese of South Dakota.
At Fargo, the stock of the United
States Clothing house was attached
for $4,000.
The losses by the late fire at Park
River, will foot up $4,000, insur-
ance $751; GOO. Among the buildings
burned were the Northwestern Hotel
and contents, and some twenty 9th
erS.
There is a great deal of interest in
Fargo in the indemnity land contest.
Over 1000 people have arrived in the
city TO file on the 1000 quarter Sec
tions recently thrown open. Nearly
all the arrivals are N~orwegians and
the stated fee for making out their
papers is S25, so it can be seen what
a harvest the land office attorneys
are making. Some 200 are already
in line at the land Office with loaves
of bread in their pockets, ready for O
siege, and it is evident that it will be
one, as the land officers announce
that if the papers are all right they
can dispose of one applicant every
ten minutes.
One ofthe features of the Methodist.
conference at Fargo, was the trial of
j. w. Tope, formerly pastor OF the
Hillsboro church. He was charged
with immortality, and the specifca.
tions include deception in being en-
gagged to his present wife before being
divorced from his former one, secur.
ing divorce not on scriptural
grounds, deception and lying. He was
suspended by the local church, and
appealed to tho conference because
they would not allow but part of tho
testimony at the time of the trial.
The case was remanded to the local
church for retrial.
Chester Kingsley of Minneapolis
purchased the stock ranch of HI. +.
Conger at Steele for $4,000. Ii is
one OF the largest ranches in North
Dakota, containing LOCO acres of
land. More stock win be added.
John d. LAWYER, B. NJ. Rowley and
Mayor Mentzer OF Mitchell, visited
Bishop Marty and offered liberal do
nations for the location of the cathe-
dral and convent at Mitchell. The
bishop stated that Yankton had been
selected as the site for the Catholic
see and that he could entertain no
propositions of this nature.
About $50 members were present
at the Methodist Conference at Aber.
deem. Yankton was selected as the
place for the next meeting of the con.
ference.
A Young Woman's Farm.